Word: wright
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...rights bill to the floor. As of Monday, only thirty Republicans had signed. A Civil Rights Commission plan to assign Federal Registrars to voting districts which practice discrimination in registering Negroes has been called constitutional by Professor Freund of the Law School and Texas Law School Professor Charles Alan Wright, thus countering the doubts President Eisenhower recently expressed as to its legality. But because of traditional Southern Democrat opposition, this plan will receive debate only as an amendment to the House Bill...
Nevertheless, a loud and powerful group of Congressmen, including Illinois Senator Paul Douglas and Texas Congressman Wright Patman, refuses to grant the Treasury any relief, crying that interest rates are already too high. "The only inflation we have today," says Patman, with more emotion than economic reason (see State of Business), "is inflation caused by high interest." The critics blame the Treasury for the rising cost of servicing the nation's debt, argue that any further boost in interest rates would cost the taxpayers additional billions. They argue that if the Treasury wants to sell long-term bonds...
...postal official who turned vacations on the Continent into competent travel books. Like another famed storyteller, Somerset Maugham, the boy suffered from an agonizing stammer. Sensitive Nevil played hooky, haunting the London Science Museum with its glass-encased models of the pioneering planes of Blériot and the Wright brothers. At the end of World War I, he entered Oxford as an engineering major. Young Norway was an indifferent student but a line engineer; in 1923 the fledgling aircraft firm of de Havilland signed him on as a junior designer at ?5 a week. The same year he soloed...
...have my head shaved," or "This is a great year for wigs-Marlene Dietrich has ten of them," and both lines were exxed out of the script. The producers even had to fight for the dramatically climactic operation scene, since the patient would have to be bald (Actress Wright wore a rubber cap to create the bald effect...
...bickering, a point of calm was Margaret Bourke-White herself. Did she mind reliving the operation that might have claimed her life? "No," she said. "I'm so grateful to the operation for setting me free that it's beautiful to me." In the final scene, Teresa Wright showed the patient's recovered coordination by bouncing a big rubber ball. Later, the producers gave the ball to Maggie, who said: "I am delighted. This is my payola...